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  • Emma Delta, an investment fund controlled by a Czech businessman and a Greek, wants to issue €400m of first and second lien unrated high yield bonds to part-finance its takeover of a 33% stake in OPAP, the Greek lottery and football betting company.
  • The leveraged loan market flexed its muscles this week as investors scrambled for US computer maker Dell’s covenant-lite loans. Not only did levloan investors out-compete bond investors, so that a bond tranche was replaced with a loan, but the demand showed just how eager European investors can be for cov-lite paper, although some of the interest will have come from the US.
  • Lenders to Thyssenkrupp have agreed to waive the September covenant test on its €2.5bn revolving credit line after the German steel firm revealed that it ran the risk of breaching its debt to equity requirements.
  • US computer maker Dell has increased the loan portion of its buyout financing, with the euro term loan ‘E’ expected to grow to at least €650m ahead of its Tuesday allocation. The facility will become one of the largest covenant-lite loans ever to be issued in euros.
  • The UK’s Tunstall Healthcare is refinancing all its outstanding loans and mezzanine facilities with new drawn and undrawn loans totalling £350m. The debt will be marketed at a bank meeting on Thursday.
  • Oberthur has launched €440m-equivalent of transatlantic, covenant-lite loans, to refinance drawn credit facilities issued by the French smart card developer for its buy-out in 2011.